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6 months ago

> It's the equivalent of sending an MD5 of your password somewhere

a) MD5 is reversible, it just cost GPU time to brute force

b) It is unproven that their implementation is irreversible

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fragmede  6 months ago

BFV has been proven to be irreversible, and Apple open sourced their Swift library implementing it, so it's not totally unproven.

https://github.com/apple/swift-homomorphic-encryption

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